{"id":304134,"date":"2025-07-30T14:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304134\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:36:22","slug":"british-brothers-11-and-13-drown-in-tragedy-on-beach-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304134\/","title":{"rendered":"British brothers, 11 and 13, drown in tragedy on beach in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

The children’s father was rescued by emergency services which rushed to the scene\"LlargaThe two boys, aged 11 and 13, drowned in the sea off Llarga beach in Salou (file image)<\/p>\n

Two British brothers have died after drowning on a beach in Spain.<\/p>\n

The unnamed 11 and 13 year old reportedly died after entering the water at Llarga beach in Salou, near Tarragona in north-eastern Spain on Tuesday, July 29.<\/p>\n

Catalonia’s Civil Protection agency said Emergency Services rushed to the scene just after 8.45pm local time, with the children’s father rescued alive by the professionals.<\/p>\n

Local police, medical and fire services were all in attendance at the scene, while psychologists were also dispatched to the beach where the incident occurred to assist the victims’ family.<\/p>\n

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Tragically, the two young boys who were caught up in the powerful currents were pronounced dead at the scene after receiving immediate treatment, local media said.<\/p>\n

The father of the two boys remains in hospital after the tragedy after he was saved from the water unconscious, the Manchester Evening News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

A Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson said: \u201cWe are supporting the family of two British children who have died in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This incident comes just weeks after a pair of British friends died after allegedly jumping into a hotel pool in a separate incident.<\/p>\n

King Edonmi, 29 and his friend Mo Liasu, 27, were discovered at the bottom of a hotel swimming pool in Albufeira, Portugal on July 15 at around 4.30am, with emergency services pronouncing them dead at the scene, after resuscitation attempts were made.<\/p>\n

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Police, at the time, said there was no suspicion of foul play in the tragedy, which occurred ‘less than 24 hours’ after the men had arrived on holiday from Ipswich.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson from the Policia Judiciaria, the Portuguese Criminal Investigation Police said: “We went to the swimming pool and found CSI work there.<\/p>\n

“There is no criminal evidence involved in the deaths of the two British citizens. The cause of deaths will be determined by the national medical cabinet in Portugal,” the Mirror <\/a>reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The children’s father was rescued by emergency services which rushed to the sceneThe two boys, aged 11 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-304134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114942691908191107","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}